Scar 3D, DVD Review

I love a good horror film and am enough of a fanboy of the genre to overlook clichés and the like as long as the film is exciting, made well with a decent story and good acting. Scar 3D dropped through my letterbox the other day with a little pair of those blue and red glasses and I sat down alone to watch the movie wondering A: how stupid will I look watching this film and B: how many pairs of these 3D glasses would be supplied with the full retail copy.

The basic story is that Joan Burrows (Angela Bettis) used to live in a small town in Colorado called Ovid, she moved away after killing a local undertaker called Ernie Bishop who had been kidnapping, torturing and cutting kids up for laughs, Joan would have been one of his victims had she not been able to escape her bonds and kill him. Well now she has come back to town to see her brother (Christopher Titus) and her niece Olympia (Kirby Bliss Blanton) who is to be prom queen, but upon her return the murders start to occur again and where being a teenager in Ovid, Colorado isn’t such a good thing.

As indicated above, the unique selling point of this film is that it is in 3D, so you can now watch all your stomach churning, gory bloodfest in 3D splendour but gimmicks like that do not necessarily make a good film and we will come back to the 3D portion of the film later, is the actual film any good? Erm… not really but then maybe that is because I am not a massive fan of mindless slasher films that liberally apply gore, guts and fake blood to everything.

The acting from everyone is pretty much average to what you would expect of a film like this also the whole thing has a very low cost feel about it to me and I found that I wasn’t particularly engaged or caring about any of the characters and come the end of the film I was quite relieved.

The 3D is done pretty well, you really get a good depth of field although some shots are too dark for it to look that good, but then horror films are shot in the dark, and so it was always going to be a trade off, but even so it was pretty well done, I have to say though that the stupid cardboard 3D glasses that came with the review copy gave me a headache after a while, luckily there is a 2D version of the film on the same disc. Despite its decent 3D aspect, even that isn’t enough to elevate this movie above mediocre.

Overall I would say that unless you are a fan of B film teen slasher movies then this is one to avoid.

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